Comments by "Jovet" (@jovetj) on "Why I Avoid Windows Standard Folders" video.

  1. "the cloud"
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  2. OneDrive is really easy to use and avoid problems with: Don't use it. Ever.
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  3. Your first mistake was using Windows 10. Your second mistake was using Windows 11.
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  4.  @lassikinnunen  Junctions are junctions. Symbolic links are symbolic links.
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  5.  @marstedt  There probably isn't. Removing "My Documents" and "Libararies" would be like deleting the Registry. You can't... Windows just expects those things to be there. "Why would you ever want to get rid of those???" You can probably break them by borking their CLSIDs, but that will likely create more problems than it solves.
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  6. Telling Windows where to find your files "by default" is not the point the video is making.
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  7. FastCopy > Robocopy
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  8.  @crinolynneendymion8755  No, Microsoft KNOWS that many computer users are completely illiterate. To milk the most money out of their "customers" they have to cater to the lowest-common demonstrator. This is why everything is soft and easy and pretty. e.g. "Fisher Price" XP and on...
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  9. Because they do. If you use Windows 8 or later, they own it. It's not yours.
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  10. "But the cloud is soooo much better!" 🙄🙄🙄
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  11. 3:57 Microsoft "crossed a line" many years ago. It's the mentality prevalent in the big computing companies: "we know best for you, the wants of users don't matter [and we're going to milk you for all the money you're worth]"
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  12. That is not solving the problem outlined in the video.
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  13. It hasn't been "your computer" for many years. Anyone that allows automatic (and especially mandatory) "updates" has no idea what code is being put on their computer.
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  14. Not all of us can kiss Windows goodbye because not all of the useful software has Linux versions.
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  15. *avoid cloud features I DID NOT CHOOSE OR SETUP in general
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  16. I disagree.
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  17.  @PurpleSanz  The AppData folder is not the Desktop folder. One of those would have an obvious impact on shell performance, the other would not.
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  18.  @PurpleSanz  What you're saying is making very little sense to me. One 10 gigabyte file or 10,000 kilobyte files: which situation is more-difficult to enumerate, and would take longer? Maybe you should be asking better questions, such as "why is something reading every file in my user profile on startup?" because that should not be normal Windows behavior. Could be easy to blame One Drive for that, but...
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  19.  @PurpleSanz  I currently have 166225 files totaling 100 GB in my user profile. But I also haven't restarted in a month.
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  20.  @PurpleSanz  Or I just don't have trashy useless services running on my machine.
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  21. The only thing that Microsoft finds helpful is their fingers into your wallet.
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  22. I used to do all that, but as I've gotten older I decided the hassle just isn't worth it. Though, the only "standard folder" I use is the Documents folder. But I am also not infected with the Windows 10 or Windows 11 virus.
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